Tarps cover benches to keep them dust-free in the new Boca Raton Library.
Jon Castro of B&I Contractors checks the ceiling in the young readers area.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Furniture in a reading area is protected by dropcloths.
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By Rich Pollack
Although the signs of Hurricane Sandy are all but gone and overall the beach in Highland Beach is in good shape, town officials still might want to take steps now to offset potential weather damage in the future, a recent study con
Members of the Boca Raton Community High School unit of the Navy Junior ROTC
stand at attention during a Memorial Day Observance at the Boca Raton City Cemetery.
Philip Vale, WWII USCGC, and fellow veterans honor members of the military
who were kil
By Rich Pollack
Minutes after being censured for violating bylaws, a member of the Boca Raton Airport Authority abruptly resigned, but not before raising questions about the salaries of airport staff, specifically the airport director.
Dave Fre
Sea Ranch Club’s entrance is dominated by native sabal palms.
Photo provided
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
On May 15, a perfect spring day, about 30 people gathered in the council chambers at Boca Raton City Hall to learn what properties were the r
By Steve Plunkett
The City Council quickly disposed of $5,600 in questions the county Office of the Inspector General raised in an audit of city expenses.
Council members voted unanimously that buying food for its three-day goal-setting session
Members of the Greater Federated Women’s Club, Boca Raton Chapter,
celebrated the installation of new officers and a unique designer fashion showing
at Ruth’s Chris Steak House. Joining in the celebration were members of the
Boca/Delray Music Society
Julia Vassalluzzo served as hostess for an event featuring shopping, hors d’oeuvres,
wine, entertainment and door prizes, all for the benefit of the organization’s
Southeast Florida Chapter. Each of the more than 85 guests received a signed copy
of
The spring luncheon that raised $15,000 for Quantum House honored its 2013 nominees:
Grand Matriarch Sydelle Meyer, along with Melissa Potamkin Ganzi, Rosemary Krieger and Ruth Young.
The women were on display throughout the event via individual oil
The National Society of Arts and Letters’ Florida East Coast Chapter presented Daniel Biaggi,
general director of the Palm Beach Opera, with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership and Artistic Excellence.
To honor Biaggi, soprano Nadine Sierra,
The new pavilion will replace the existing pavilion at Atlantic Avenue and A1A.
Rendering courtesy Bob Currie
By Tim Pallesen
A new pavilion on the beach at Atlantic Avenue has the green light for Delray Beach to select a contractor and start
By Cheryl Blackerby
Delray Beach and Boca Raton are likely to receive long-awaited money for damage to beaches by Hurricane Sandy, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The two cities’ beach projects were among 16 projects around the stat
Above: Photo of the Delray Ledge taken before the renourishment project.
Below: Photo taken after the project shows the water at the Delray Ledges obscured by silt.
Photos by Reef Rescue (top) and Chase Bilbery
By Cheryl Blackerby
The dredge is
The Briny Breezes Town Council will seek bids this month to provide police protection for the 488-mobile home town for the next three years or beyond.
For the past three years, the town has paid neighboring Ocean Ridge $185,000 annually for p
By Tim O’Meilia
Manalapan town commissioners voted, by a 4-2 count, to apologize to Town Manager Linda Stumpf for one commissioner’s allegations of misuse of her car allowance.
An examination of town payroll records by the town’s outside
The ‘Commissioner Thug’ artwork was replaced in late April with a painting of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (below) at Martin O’Boyle’s home in Gulf Stream’s Hidden Harbour neighborhood.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
Whe
By Mary Thurwachter
Property owners turned out en masse at the April 8 Town Council meeting to oppose a proposed sober house at 118 N. Oak Ave., around the corner from the Ocean Avenue shopping district.
Phyllis Small, who owns property on the
Abandoned triplex offered to the Lantana Historical Society.
Mary Thurwachter/The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
A town-owned triplex on Prospect Road could become the new home for the Lantana Historical Society.
The house at 111 Prosp
By Tim O’Meilia
The fate of Ocean Ridge’s five-store business district is back in the hands of town commissioners with the town’s planning and zoning board’s advice to hire a firm to recommend a plan for the next few decades.
The board urg
By Tim O’Meilia
Check your calendar, Gulf Stream residents, and move the start of that long-promised utilities project back another three or four months.
How about Labor Day?
The town will begin seeking bids on the $5.4 million project
